Word: risings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dusty Plain. Israel's fighting men were desperately trying to reopen the lifeline road. Last week they attacked near Latrun, where commanding hills suddenly rise from the rocky plain. Near by is the Ajalon Valley, where Joshua commanded the sun to stand still until the Israelites "had avenged themselves upon their enemies." Last week the moon was not so obliging. Haganah fighters, who are used to night battles, had attacked in its light. But heavy Arab fire stopped them. The morning sun found Jews still in the dusty plain, firing from the cover of rocks...
...more than in the same month last year. Civilian employment, said BLS, is also headed for a new peacetime high of 62,000,000 jobs by September. Industrial production, which had dropped in April for the second consecutive month because of the coal strike, was on the rise again. After the disappointing Easter season, department store sales, reported the Federal Reserve Board, were "at exceptionally high levels" in April and the first half...
...however, anti-Communist sentiment among the U.E.'s rank & file began to rise. Sentner's own Local 1102 began to turn against him, and his right to hold his district office was challenged in the courts. After the Taft-Hartley law was passed, he was asked if he intended to resign and allow the union to comply with the law. "That decision," he replied, "is up to the membership of this union." Last week, Local 1102 made its decision. By a vote of 950-2, Bill Sentner-still hanging on to his district and international offices -was expelled...
Last week, on Founder's Day, President Harry Truman drove to Girard College to help celebrate its centennial. The college has a 42-acre campus whose classical buildings rise like a bit of ancient Athens out of a drab part of midtown Philadelphia. Girard is not really a college at all, but the richest boarding school in the world (its endowment: $90 million). Harry Truman inspected everything, put away an enormous roast beef luncheon, accepted a pupil-fashioned bronze statuette of the Founder, listened to a 16-year-old pianist play Chopin, planted a pair of sapling twinoaks...
...each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to,rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading...